Horses For Sale

Horses for Sale (Last modified:May 09, 2012)

Breeders of quality Hanoverians and Canadian Warmbloods, Hidden Orchard Farm has been highly successful at accomplishing its goal of breeding talented, athletic youngsters, with excellent temperaments and huge hearts that are winning in hunter/jumper, dressage and eventing disciplines.

We believe that developing our horses’ minds and abilities is extremely important, thus we work daily with our youngsters and expose them to the show ring from the time they are only a few weeks old. Our broodmares have excellent pedigrees with top European Hanoverian bloodlines. In close consultation with stallion owners, we carefully choose sires with the best bloodlines to complement our mares’ pedigrees and performance records. Our goal is to produce top performance horses with super minds and the results speak for themselves (see News/Show Results).

Our pricing is as follows:

Weanlings: starting from $8,500 CDN
Yearlings: starting from $10,000 CDN
Two year olds: $12,000 CDN
Three year olds and upwards: price dependent upon training and ability

Please note that pricing may change without notice. The HST (Harmonized Sales Tax of 13%) will be applied to sales within Canada only.

Hidden Orchard Farm Sales:

Romantic Star X Aviary
Due July 2012. We anxiously anticipate our 2012 foal by Romantic Star X Aviary

Romantic Star
http://grayfoxfarms.com/romanticstar.htm

Romantic Star is a 17 hand, imported Elite Class I Hanoverian Stallion. He is dark brown, with a star, snip and 2 hind socks.

Romantic Star comes from a long line of champions. His sire, Ramiro's Son II, a License Class I Holsteiner by Ramiro had many wins at Grand Prix in the Jumping world with his rider Soren Von Ronne. Romantic Star's dam is Pirola by Pinkus, a License Class I Hanoverian by Pandur.

Romantic Star passed his 100 day testing in Germany in Prussendorf in 1998, where he came in 6^th place overall with the following scores: Dressage: 117.89, Jumping: 120.98, for a total: 120.47

Romantic Star received a 10 for his character, 9's for temperament, willingness, and 8's for constitution, walk, canter, and rideability. His jumping technique and talent earned him a rare nomination to the Hanoverian Jumper Breeding Program, to which only the most elite stallions are mares are invited after accomplishing stringent requirements.

We are excited about this 2012 foal. We proudly offer this in utero foal (colt option only) for $7,500 (+HST for Canadian residents)

2011 yearlings for sale:

Hidden Orchard Coraggio (Thor )
Born May 8, 2011, bay colt, expected to turn gray, with star
By the Holsteiner stallion, Chablis 1 Z (right) (Corrado 1) X Aviary (Arkansas)

Born on Mother’s Day - May 8^th, 2011, Thor is a handsome colt by Chablis 1 Z X Aviary. Thor is bold, with powerful, athletic movement. He loves people and attention. Thor is long-legged, with lovely movement, a long stride, easy natural changes and a ground covering trot. Thor is going to be a big boy, as he measures 14.2h at 9 months of age.

Thor is very well handled and attended his first show, the Summerfest Breeder’s show on July 31, 2011. He finished fourth in his class and was extremely well-behaved. Thor loaded and trailered very well and was extremely easy to deal with at the show. Several people commented on how quiet and laid back he was. In preparation for the show, Thor was bathed, cross-tied and braided and handled everything exceedingly well.

Bred to be a top hunter/jumper prospect, Thor’s lineage represents the best of the best in show jumping. His sire, the gray Holsteiner stallion Chablis I Z was licensed in 2004 by the Holsteiner Verband in Neumunster where he excelled because of his remarkable jumping qualities. Chablis 1 Z has shown to 1.40m in the jumpers in Ontario and California.

Thor’s grandsire Corrado I was shown internationally by the great Frankie Sloothaak. Under Frankie Sloothaak, Corrado I won the biggest show in the world, Aachen, setting the stage for his superstar jumping career. Corrado I has the proven cross of Cor de la Bryere and Capitol in his pedigree. Cor de la Bryere is respected as one of only a few elite stallions ever to produce such rideable horses for all the Olympic disciplines and the Capitol line adds level-headedness.

The Holsteiner stallion Chablis I Z was licensed in 2004 by the Holsteiner Verband in Neumunster where he excelled because of his remarkable jumping qualities. His sire, Corrado I, is one of the best showjumping horse sires in Holsteiner breeding history and has had great influence on show-jumping horse breeding worldwide especially through his sons Indorado, Clinton and Coriano. In international showjumping, Corrado I is sire of the International Showjumping horses Cattani (Geir Gulliksen) and think Twice II (Leopold van Asten). On the dam’s side, Chablis I Z carries the first class jumping blood of the stallions Calando I, I Landgraf Calypso and Calypso I combined with the valuable Holsteiner Lineage 95. For more information please see http://www.warmblood.com/chablis.htm.

Aviary, Thor’s dam, has produced offspring competing successfully in the jumper ring in the US and Canada. Belle Nuit, her filly by Beau Soleil, has been jumping in 1.35m classes and in September 2010, Belle Nuit won the $10,000 Marshall Sterling Children’s and Adult Jumper Classic at the ESP show in Wellington, Florida. This is her second year competing at Spruce Meadows in the full tournament schedule and she represented Mexico on the Prix de Nations junior team in 2010. Aviary’s filly, Wieta, shown as German Engineered, has been showing in the 1.15m and 1.20m junior amateurs in Quebec “A” circuit shows and also qualified for the CET Medal class at the Royal Winter Fair in 2010.

Currently asking $10,000 (+HST for Canadian residents) for this top level hunter/jumper prospect.

“Thor” at Autumn at Ashlands on September 25, 2011. (Above)

Hidden Orchard Landprinzessin(Zessa)
Born July 13, 2011, bay filly, with star, stripe and snip, 2 white socks
By the Hanoverian stallion, Landkönig (photo free jumping below right, description below) X Estevan (Escudo 1)

Born two weeks late, "Zessa" finally arrived on July 13, 2011, at 7:45 pm. Within 15 minutes of birth, she was standing, a beautiful, leggy filly, and within another 10 minutes was nursing, without problem. Zessa is an incredibly sweet, easy to handle filly that loves people and attention and learns very quickly. Leading in a halter at two days old, she has not looked back.

On September 1^st, 2011, at just over 6 weeks of age, Zessa was presented at the Hanoverian foal inspection in Ontario, Canada. Zessa was the youngest foal presented but behaved beautifully. She led easily on and off the trailer and handled an almost four hour trailer ride without problem. While waiting her turn in the arena, she ate and slept in the show stall with her dam. For the inspection, she was, of course, bathed and braided. She stood very well and we were very proud of her excellent behaviour. Photos of Zessa at the inspection are below.

Zessa received very good comments, with the judges commenting that she was a very well developed filly with a muscular hind end, which they indicated is very good for a jumper bred foal. They also said she had a very good trot, was of very good type and we were congratulated for presenting a very nice filly.

Zessa’s pedigree is chock full of jumping talent, with Escudo 1 on her dam line (see Estevan on the Broodmares page) and Landkönig (see description below).

Landkonig Landkönig (Landadel/Landsknecht (Lasso)/Gotthard) is a 16.3H, bay, elite Hanoverian stallion, 4 socks, a star and snip. Landkönig completed his 100 day test at Adelheidsdorf as a three-year-old and was 7th out of 50 with 118.10 points overall and a 9.5 for stadium jumping, 8's for willingness to work, character, temperament and the walk. Overall balanced on his jumping and rideability scores. The Hannoveraner Jahrbuch Hengste 2005 lists Landkönig with a jumping breeding value of 132 putting him ahead of Ritual, Drosselklang, Espri, Escudo II, Grosso Z and many other top German Grand Prix producers. Landkönig is in fact the highest rated jumper listed, standing in the U.S. listed in the 2009 Stallion yearbook with a jumper breed value of 135 and 140 for ability, slightly higher than super producer and 2007 stallion of the year Argentinus.

Zessa’s movement is quick and light, she is able to stop, spin and gallop off into another direction very easily. Zessa loves being brushed and is handled daily, cross-ties and is great for the farrier. We believe that with her movement and pedigree, Zessa will be a top-level jumper prospect.

Currently asking $12,000 (+HST for Canadian residents) for this lovely Hanoverian filly, bred to be a top level jumper.

Landprinzessin (Landkonig X Estevan)

Born July 13, 2011, Landprinzessin attends the Hanoverian foal inspection at Southlane Farm in Vankleek Hill on September 1, 2011.

Photo credit: Richard DeWolfe at www.richarddewolfe.com